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 Peter
Gumpert, Ph.D.
is a cofounder and principal of GLS Consulting, Inc. He has more than
twenty-five years of experience working in private and public sector
organizations, and has consulted for clients such as General Motors Corporation,
EMC2,
The MITRE Corporation, Polaroid Corporation, Lotus Development Corporation, and
Malden Mills Industries. At GLS, he often functions as the Team’s principal
theoretician, project strategist, and research expert. He has a particular
facility for seeing how complex, difficult tasks can be accomplished, and how
unstructured problems can be approached and solved. His extensive work to create
a new work culture at the General Motors Wentzville (Missouri) Assembly Center
served as a model for the Saturn Corporation.
Prior to joining GLS, Dr. Gumpert was a professor of psychology at Columbia
University and Boston University. He continues to teach at the Boston Institute
for Psychotherapy, where he founded the Organization Development and Human
Resource Consultation Program for the post-graduate training of organizational
consultants. He has served as research director both at the Institute for Urban
and Minority Education at Columbia University and at the Boston Institute for
Psychotherapy.
Dr. Gumpert is a licensed clinical and organizational psychologist. He
co-authored The
success-fearing personality: Theory and research,
has contributed to professional journals such as the
Journal of Personality and
Social Psychology, the
Journal of Conflict
Resolution, and
Psychotherapy Research,
and has written articles and book chapters on organizational and policy issues.
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.jpg) Ann
K. Lindsey, MBA
is a co-founder and principal of GLS Consulting,
Inc. She has more than twenty years of experience working in private and public
sector organizations, and has consulted with clients such as General Motors,
Quantum Chemical Corporation, The Mitre Corporation, Malden Mills Industries,
CBS, Taylor Investments, EMC2, and NASA Space Center. She
specializes in leadership development, executive coaching, women in management,
and team development.
Ann brings to GLS projects and clients her remarkably fine-tuned intuition about
people, systems, and events. If Ann senses that there is a problem with a
proposed strategy, or a way out of a vexing problem, everyone listens very
carefully; she almost always notices things that others miss. These
characteristics bring her virtually instant credibility even in large groups.
Ann is a gifted, passionate teacher and lecturer. She has taught a great many
women managers how to understand and be effective in difficult organizational
environments.
Ann was a Professor of Management at Simmons College Graduate School of
Management from 1982 until 2000. In both the MBA and the Executive Development
Programs at the GSM, she helped develop and expand the organizational behavior
courses that were part of the founding philosophy of the School. Ann has
developed comprehensive leadership and management programs for women at Simmons,
General Motors Corporation, and Quantum Chemical Corporation.
In 2001 Ann completed a research study to determine the “Best Practices” of The
Commonwealth Institute’s CEO Forum; she is also a CEO Forum Leader. Ann also
taught in the University of Hartford’s doctoral program in psychology from 2001
through 2003.
Ann earned an MBA from Simmons College Graduate School of Management and a
Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of South Carolina. She was a
graduate student in Psychology and Social Relations at Harvard University.
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 James W. Smith,
PH.D is a co-founder and principal of GLS Consulting, Inc. He has consulted to client organizations in manufacturing, financial services, education, human services, and government. An accomplished speaker, Dr. Smith has made presentations to businesses, government agencies, civic groups, hospitals and human service centers, and state and national professional associations. He has served as a faculty member at Boston University, Bridgewater State College, and Mt. Ida Junior College.
Dr. Smith thrives on his work with systems, particularly in the area of change and resistance to change. He personally embodies the phenomena he most likes to think and write about: environments that facilitate creativity; personal development; team collaboration; and hardiness-- he is another of GLS’s strong theoretical thinkers. With individuals and groups who are having a difficult time, Jim’s understanding of personal and interpersonal dynamics--along with his relaxed, confident wisdom, firmness, and unquestionable dependability--help people feel safe, and able to get through difficulty and confusion to create durable solutions for their problems. Jim is remarkably good at fostering growth, and developing leadership potential in people and organizations. Others have said of Jim that he has an uncanny ability to see the absurd in the most intense moments; his humor helps people laugh when they most need to do so, and helps to clarify difficult interpersonal processes.
In 1969 Dr. Smith assembled a group of professionals to create the Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, a postgraduate institute for professionals. He remains as a faculty member of the Institute; he also served as its Executive Director for fifteen years. Dr. Smith’s particular emphasis has been in human systems; he has a strong interest in research, theory development, teaching, and consulting related to small as well as large organizations, including marriages, families, and family businesses as well as large business organizations and government agencies.
Dr. Smith received both a Ph.D. and a M.A. in psychology from Boston University.
He also holds a Master of Arts in philosophy from Drew University. He is a
licensed psychologist, and the American Psychological Association. He has
co-authored "The Therapeutic Alliance in Marital Therapy" chapter in
Contemporary Marriage: Structure, Dynamics and Therapy, as well as, "Building
Therapeutic Relationships With Couples" in Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, and
Training Journal.
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